Photo: Yana Lavrenteva/Instagram
A 30-year-old California mother of two was fatally struck in a hit-and-run as she was crossing the street over the weekend and police are seeking the public’s help in catching her killer, PEOPLE confirms.
Yana Lavrenteva was out with friends at a restaurant in Encino on Saturday night when she and her friends decided to get coffee across the street, Los Angeles police detective Dan Menesez tells PEOPLE.
Multiple friends and family members witnessed the crash, police say. But nobody was able to get a good look at the driver, who sped through a red light and did not stop before or after.
Said Friend Olga Viter: “It was no brakes before or after.”
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Lavrenteva was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died from her injuries.
“She was my universe … my family, center of our universe,” her husband, Evgeny,told KABC. “She was kind [to] everybody.”
“It was so sudden for everybody,” Evgeny told KABC. “It’s like … somebody came from nowhere and disappeared.”
Evgeny said he hopes police find the person responsible, not for himself “but for my kids, for my family, for all of my friends,” he told KTLA.
Detective Menesez, too, wants answers.
“There has not been anyone who has turned themselves in,” he says. “I would love it if that would occur.”
AGoFundMe pagehas been set up to help her “family and kids get through this tough time.”
Anyone with information about the crash or the driver is asked to contact L.A. detectives Lisset Fuentes or Dan Menesez at 818-644-8021 or 818-644-8028.
source: people.com
